Ricardo B�nffy

@rbanffy
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Writer of executable poetry, maker of a font. Opinions are mine.
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Ricardo B�nffy5d ago
Delve - Fake Compliance as a Service - Part I https://deepdelver.substack.com/p/delve-fake-compliance-as-a-service
Delve - Fake Compliance as a Service - Part I

How Delve managed to falsely convince hundreds of customers they were compliant and then lied about it when exposed and called out

DeepDelver
Ricardo B�nffy5d ago
Charlie Stross5d ago

Close-to-home fallout from the Gulf war: I *was* planning on taking @feorag back to Japan in September for her birthday (a significant number one), but thanks to Netanyahu and Trump that's probably not happening now. Grump. (Jet fuel has nearly doubled in price in the past two weeks and it's not coming down any time soon.)

Even if the AI bubble *doesn't* burst we're in for a series of supply chain shocks as bad as 2022. And it'll probably get much worse than that.

Ricardo B�nffy5d ago
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record | Electronic Frontier Foundation https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/03/blocking-internet-archive-wont-stop-ai-it-will-erase-webs-historical-record
Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record

Imagine a newspaper publisher announcing it will no longer allow libraries to keep copies of its paper. That’s effectively what’s begun happening online in the last few months. The Internet Archive—the world’s largest digital library—has preserved newspapers since it went online in the mid-1990s....

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Ricardo B�nffyMar 16
No, America is Not Respected - Paul Krugman https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/no-america-is-not-respected?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=277517&post_id=191107045&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=mi2f&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
No, America is Not Respected

Thanks to Trump, we’re held in contempt even by our closest allies

Paul Krugman
Ricardo B�nffyMar 15

I'm sure women will relate to that.

Bumblebee Queens Breathe Underwater to Survive Drowning, Revealing How They Can Live Submerged for a Week https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/bumblebee-queens-breathe-underwater-to-survive-drowning-revealing-how-they-can-live-submerged-for-a-week-180988330/

Bumblebee Queens Breathe Underwater to Survive Drowning, Revealing How They Can Live Submerged for a Week

After scientists accidentally discovered that the common eastern bumblebee can withstand flood conditions, they wanted to investigate what makes that super-ability possible

Smithsonian Magazine
Ricardo B�nffyMar 14
NanoraptorMar 13

iso paper sizes are delicious: sides are 1:sqrt2 or about 1:1.414

A4 is 210x297mm

A4 folded in half is 148x210 or A5.

A3 is two A4s, or 297x420

go to A0 841x1189 or one square metre.

A-1 (A Minus One) is 2 square metres.

Australia is ~A-43

The visible universe ~A-179

A proton about A139.

A Quark? A151

Presumably A232 is one dimensional though, as it's planck length on the long edge.

Ricardo B�nffyMar 14
Charlie StrossMar 14
Today's eldritch coffee is The Great Race of Yith (from Lovecraft's "The Shadow out of Time"):
Ricardo B�nffyMar 14
Charlie StrossMar 14

RE: https://universeodon.com/@georgetakei/116173033360235850

News Flash: Tom Cotton wasn't saying "imminent", it's just that Fox News's talking heads are too illiterate to understand what "immanent" means to a Christian Dominionist like Cotton.

Ricardo B�nffyMar 14
Analyzing Nvidia GB10's GPU - by Chester Lam https://chipsandcheese.com/p/analyzing-nvidia-gb10s-gpu?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=2114758&post_id=190912586&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=mi2f&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
Analyzing Nvidia GB10's GPU

Looking at Nvidia's latest effort to make a big iGPU

Chips and Cheese
Ricardo B�nffyMar 11
Why I Don't Speak American - Paul Krugman https://paulkrugman.substack.com/p/why-i-dont-speak-american
Why I Don't Speak American

And why it's a problem that Pete Hegseth says he does

Paul Krugman